QlikView Overview (a BI Tool for Quick Business Analysis)

QlikView Overview

QlikView is the most flexible Business Intelligence platform for turning data into knowledge. More than 24,000 organisations worldwide have enabled their users to easily consolidate, search, and visually analyse all their data for unprecedented business insight using QlikView’s simplicity.

Effective decision-making is based on having the right information available and easy accessible. 

Taking just minutes to learn, the automatic associations of QlikView create endless possibilities for making ad hoc queries without requiring tediously defined structures and hierarchies, as is typical in other data analysis tools. QlikView promotes unrestricted analysis of application data, helping users make time-saving and accurate decisions.

It brings a whole new level of analysis, insight, and value to existing data stores with user interfaces that are clean, simple, and straightforward.

The Associative Experience

QlikView enables users to gain unexpected business insights by understanding how data is associated—and what data is not related. They can conduct direct and indirect searches across all data anywhere in the application—globally or within a single field. When the user clicks on a data point in a field, no queries are fired. Instead, all the other fields instantaneously filter themselves based on the selection the user made.

Powered by In-Memory Technology

The engine behind associative search is QlikView’s next-generation in-memory architecture. It virtually eliminates the problems and complexity plaguing traditional, slow, disk-based and query-based BI tools that deliver little more than static, prepackaged data. With QlikView, all your data is loaded in memory and available for instant associative search and real-time analysis with a few clicks.

Fast to Deploy, IT Efficient

QlikView breaks out of the gridlock of the traditional BI world, where business users and developers spend months documenting and coding these requirements into dashboards, analysis, and reports, using different products for each output. Pulling data into QlikView takes minutes because data is not required to be staged or stored in intermediary formats such as data warehouses or cubes (although QlikView can source data from these systems).

QlikView integrates both the building of the back-end underlying analytic calculations with the front-end user interface. With this complete BI solution, developers have one place to build, instead of having to use separate BI tools for dashboards, analysis and reports. Finally, the resulting QlikView application provides powerful associative search and data visualization capabilities that allow business users to view their own slice of the underlying data.

Visual Intelligence can build QlikView data models in as little as 1-15 working days (depending on availability of the data and complexity of the analytical application) to deploy to users and can train you to do the same.  Often one QlikView application can often replace hundreds of reports and the cubes used for them, reducing the need to IT support and time delays.

QlikView Product SuiteQlikView is a comprehensive business intelligence platform providing powerful business analytics to a broad range of users throughout the organisation. The QlikView suite is designed for application development and data extractions, efficient information distribution and powerful analysis for either the power user or end-user. QlikView can be deployed both offline and online leveraging a range of industry leading technologies.

QlikView Local Client
This stand-alone Windows client provides the full developer’s ETL and end-user application to develop, deploy and analyse QlikView applications.

QlikView Small Business Edition Server
This Server version of QlikView provides ones one central computer to handle all reloads, RAM performance and administration.  Users can access the QlikView documents via a number of different Clients options – Windows full client, IE Plug in, Ajax (zero footprint) and mobile clients (eg. iPhone, Blacberry etc).
Two different user licenses available – Named Client Access License (CAL) provides one user access to as many QlikView documents as required or Document CAL which enables one user to access one document.  Minimum deployment of 5 Named users, maximum of 25.  Document CALs are a minimum of 10, with a maximum of 100.

QlikView Enterprise Edition ServerThis is the full enterprise Server version of QlikView, again providing centrality for QlikView reloads, RAM performance and administration.  In addition this Server version allows nesting of multiple servers for data load balancing as well as enabling the collaboration feature for the users.  Collaboration enables users to create and share their own objects and charts as well as bookmarks with other users.

Named CALs, Document CALs, Session CALs (Concurrent) and Usage CALs are user license options available.
Minimum deployment of 10 Named CAL and Document CALs are a minimum of 100.

QlikView PublisherQlikView Publisher ensures that the right information reaches the right user at the right time.  Developed for larger user environments, QlikView Publisher gives further centralised administration and management.  QlikView Publisher allows for complete control of the distribution of a company’s QlikView applications through QlikView AccessPoint also automating the data refresh process.

There are additional licensing products available such as QlikView for Sharepoint and other specialised functional requirements.  Please contact us for further information.